Insecticides



I Patented M018, 1945 UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE INSECTICIDES Kaspar Pfafl, Michael Erlenbach, and Walter Finkenbrink, FrankIort-on-the-Main-Hochst,

, l 1 Hans MaierqBode, Wolfen, Kreis Bitterteld, Q; Kurt Meisenburg, Leverkusen, and Marianne Meisenheimer,

Leverkusen- Kuppersteg,

Ger-

many, asslg'nors to Winthrop Chemical Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York 1 Claim.

- of carbazole containing at least at the 3- and 6- carbon atoms a substituent of the group consisting of halogen, nitro and amino are highly suitable for combating leaf-eating and sucking insects, even under open-air conditions and are capable of replacing the hitherto usual arsenical insecticides. It may be suitable to use the said compounds in admixture with inert substances, 20

wetting agents, spreaders and stickers.

Compounds of that kind are for instance:

3.6-diamido-carbazole, 3.6-dinitro-carbazole. 3.6-dinitro-N-ethyl-carbazole, 6-chloro-3-nitro-9-ethyl-carbazole, 3-nitro-6-amido-N-ethyl-carbazole or tetranitro-carbazole.

An agent may, for instance, he prepared from 25 per cent. of tetranitro-carbazole, 10 per cent. of cellulose pitch, 2 per cent. of a wetting agent and 63 per cent. of inert substances, such as kaolin, chalk, talcum or kieselguhr. A spray of 1 per cent. strength prepared therefrom sufllces for killing for instance fruit pests, such a caterpillars of brown-tail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea) more rapidly and safelyjthan with one of the usual sprays of calcium-arsenate or lead-arsenate this having been proved by the following I comparative test: I

- Polychrosis botra'na). the most dangerous en- Killing of llluproctls rylorr oea: Concentration used Dead after Dead after 2 days 4 days a Per cent Per cent Per cent Calcium-emanate 0. 4 40 100 0 Lead-emanate 0. 4 40 100 Carbamle (of 25 per cent strength)" 1.0 0 0 5 Tetmnitrocarbazole (of 25 per cent strength) l. 0 100 100 The agents named may also successfully be 5 used for the control of the spring and summer generation of vine-moth (C'lusia ambiauella and emies in vine culture. Injuries on the plants treated are not noted, as this is-very often the case when arsenical agents are used.

The same compounds may, of course, be applied in the form of dusts. For instance, by intimately grinding 10 per cent. of tetranitro-carbazole with per cent. of talc a dustis obtained which, instead of calcium arsenate, may be used for combating for instance M eligethes aeneus, leaf-eating Chrysomelidae or other coleopters.

For the purpose herein described there are furthermore suitable the halogenated carbazoles, for instance 3.6-dichloro-carbazole, 1.3.6-trichloro-carbazole and the higher chlorinated carbazoles, 6-chloro-3-bromo-carbazole, 9-acetyl-6- I chloro-3-bromo-carbazole, 3.6-dibrdmo-carbazole, tetrabromo carbazole, pentabromo carbazole, heptabromo-carbazole or 3.6-di-iodo-carbazole.

Among the halogenated carbazoles 3.6-dichloro-carbazole and the commercial mixtures thereof are particularly distinguished by a good eflicacy, while being readily accessible for industrial purposes.

A mixture of 10 parts of 3.6-dichloro-carbazole and 90 parts of a pulverulent diluent, such as chalk, kaolin or talc, shows, for instance a very good action against the small caterpillars of Bapalus piniarius. If pine-trees affected by the said caterpillars are dusted with the afore-named mixture, the caterpillars at once cease eating and die after some days.

These agents may likewise be applied in the form of sprays. The spray may be applied with the same success against the caterpillars of Bupalus piniarius as the pulverulent agent named above.

Other pests, for instance the caterpillars of 

